Device for holding embroidery-hoops



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S. E. LINCOLN.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING EMBROIDERY HOOPS.

No. 265,521.. Patented Oct. 3, 1882.

WITNESSES I INVENTOR ATTORNEYS 2 Sheets- Sheet 24 (ModeL) S; E. LINCOLN. DEVIUE FOR HOLDINGBMBROIDERY HOOPS.

Patented Oct. 3, 1882.

ATTORNEYS WITN ESSES UNITED STATES SAMUEL E. LINCOLN, OF FULTON, NEW' YORK.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING EMBROIDERY-HOOPS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,521, dated October 3, 1882.

Application filed July 1I 1882. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL E. LINCOLN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Fulton, in the county of Oswego and State of New York, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Devices for Holding Embroidery-Hoops and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is an end elevation. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the device.

This invention, has relation to devices for holding embroidery hoops or frames in any desired position; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement of a pair of clamping-disks, each having a half-socket ex tending radially inward from its margin, and a central perforation, a forked clip having a set-screw, and a vertical flan ge-arm extending between the disks and connected thereto by a pivotal clamp-screw, a detachable holdingarm having a pair of jaws and adapted to be circularly adjusted in the bearing formed between the disks by the half-sockets thereof, all as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, the letterA designates a forked hearing or clip, consisting of the upper branch, I), the lower branch, at, and the vertical flange-arm c. In the lower branch, a, is made a threaded perforation to engage a set-screw, d.

E and F represent a pair of disks, whereof each is provided with a rounded half-socket, 9, extending radially from its margin inward on its inside face. Each disk is also centrally perforated, the central perforation, h, of one. of the disks beingthreaded to engage the threaded end of a pivot-screw, 70, which passes through said disks and through aperforation in the flange-arm 0 between the same, said pivotscrew being shouldered at l, and serving also as a clamp-screw to hold the disks tightly to the flan ge-arm c. Guide-1n gs m are formed on the inside faces of the disks to engage each other, so that when the disks are circularly adjusted on the pivot-screw k they will move together, keeping their half-sockets in proper juxtaposition to form a bearing for the end of the holding-arm H. The holding-arm H consists of a pair ofjaws, r and s, of which one is extended to form an arm or stem and the other is pivoted to bearings of said arm or stem, as indicated at t. A clamp-screw, '12, connects said arms, and, passing through a threaded perforation in the arm 8, serves as a means whereby the jaws may be forcibly closed upon a hoop or frame, holding it securely. The end of the arm H which extends into the bearing- 2 H is then placed between the disks in the bearin g formed by the half-sockets,the hoop raised to the desired height, and the arm secured by turning the clamp-screw it. Then the embroidery hoop or frame can be further adjusted by first loosening the clamp-screw a little,

turning the hoop on the pivot formed by the end of the holding-arm, and again tightening the clamp-screw 7c. Y

This embroidery-hoop holder is simple in construction and easily applied. 'The work is readily adjusted in any desired position and securely held. To reverse the work it should be taken out of the jaws of the holding-arm H, turned, and replaced again therein.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-- The embroidery-hoop holder consisting of the pair of clamping-disks, each having a halfsocket, 9, extending radially inward from its margin", a forked clip having a set-screw, and a flange-arm, 0,, extending between the disks, and connected thereto by a pivotal clamp-screw and a detachable holding-arm having a pair of clamping-jaws and a rounded end adapted to be circularly adjusted in the bearing formed by the half-sockets of the disks, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL E. LINCOLN.

Witnesses:

FRED A. EMERICK, SoLoN F. (less. 

